Wigwam Athletic Socks

I was buying socks at the store the other day, a very glamorous errand. While browsing the racks I noted that my choices at the store, while ample, consisted of basically two colors in athletic socks, white or black. I think I also saw some grey, but what was missing were the striped athletic socks of my youth. I am not sure when they fell out of fashion, I know I was still getting them in the 1990s, but now…gone.

My family usually bought some really low quality generic brands on sale. The way that I burned through socks, I completely understand. But even those of us who trucked in cheaper socks knew that the gold standard back in the day for socks was the Wigwam.

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Badwolfsays:

Our Cadillac socks were Thor-Lo’s. First saw them at Herman’s World of Sporting Goods – pretty reasonable, too. THEN they caught on and the price soared. That sucked. THEN we had to find knock-off Thor-Lo’s.

We always bought Wigwam rag wool socks for use with our boots during the winter. They THEY got expensive and we were getting knock-off rag wool socks.